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Apples, who cannot help but love the versatile fruit? …(well besides Suzi)… Seeing how it’s National Trivia Day, a bit of trivia about the common place fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apples are a member of the rose family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A bushel of apples can produce 20-24 quarts of applesauce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They reduce the risk of stroke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apples are fat free and a great source of fiber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To keep potatoes fresh and to prevent them from sprouting, add an apple to the bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The average person eats about 19 pounds of apples a year, which is roughly an apple a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only apple native to North America is the crab apple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are over 7,000 varieties of apples worldwide. Approximately 2500 varieties exist in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington is the number one producer of apples in the US. New York is second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apple trees can grow up to 40 feet tall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An apple floats because 25% of its volume is air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The largest apple ever picked tipped the scales at 3 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it was her acceptance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now all of this talk of apples has me thinking maybe I should plant another apple tree. The only problem is that I have found out the hard way, that Japanese beetles love them. A good source for older apple tree varieties is: Heirloom Fruit Trees for Home & Farm-Trees of Antiquity rooted organic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I now may have to go ditch my plans on housekeeping and consider making something appley with my last 6 apples in the crisper drawer. Unless something else distracts me and leads me in another direction. See what a bad influence you all can be? I know it certainly can’t be me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apples, who cannot help but love the versatile fruit? …(well besides Suzi)… Seeing how it’s National Trivia Day, a bit of trivia about the common place fruit. Apples are a member of the rose family. A bushel of apples can produce 20-24 quarts of applesauce. They reduce the risk of stroke. Apples are fat free […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}